Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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Baghdad’s Youthquake: Iraq’s Young Protestors ‘Have Nothing Left To Lose’
(Niqash.org ) – Anti-government protests in Baghdad were led by the younger generation, one that has grown up under military rule, lived a more liberal […]
How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America’s Apple Cart
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – For all their overwhelming firepower, the U.S. and its allies can cause a lot of misery in the Middle East, […]
Why Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency
By Ken Hughes | – Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better. Nixon got a foreign government’s help to win […]
Iraqi Gov’t Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Protests broke out again in Baghdad on Saturday, leaving 15 dead. The government had shut down the internet a few […]
Saudi looks ‘positively’ at Yemeni truce proposal
Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Salman believes that his country looks “positively” at the truce proposal announced by Houthis in Yemen, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. In […]
Solar Power: How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions
By Kathryn G Logan, Shi Chen and Xi Lu | – China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road […]
Trail of Tears: Refugees at Our Southern Border
“There were many trails of tears all over North America of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed by government forces. The indigenous peoples who are […]
Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A particularly unperceptive and unfeeling wag came up with the bon mot defining a “socialist” as someone kept up at […]
Is Turkey planning an attack on Syrian Kurds?
ISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria. But so far, the scheme isn’t working […]